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US 2019/0200163 A1Published application
Charge room locationing
AssigneeSymbol Technologies, Inc.
InventorsRussell Calvarese, Richard J. Lavery, Menuka Gayan Senevirathna, Dammika Prasad Wijethunga
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Abstract
A mobile device locationing system that overrides the reported position with that of the charge room when the AC charge signal is detected by the device.
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A method of locationing a mobile device in a charge location in a venue, the method comprising:
- receiving, from the mobile device at the venue, a charge signal indicating external charging of the mobile device and/or a characteristic of the charge location at the venue;
- determining that the mobile device is at the charge location based on the charge signal and/or on the characteristic of the charge location at the venue;
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- outputting a locationing status associating the mobile device with the charge location,
- wherein the characteristic of the charge signal is received in response to detection of an external power source via a charging dock into which the mobile device is inserted, and
- wherein the characteristic of the charge location is an angle of orientation of the charging dock.
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A system for locationing a mobile device in a charge location, the system comprising:
- a venue locationing server for a venue, the venue including one or more mobile device charge locations;
- an array of ultrasonic transmitters disposed proximate to the venue and controllable by the venue locationing server;
- a mobile device at the venue, the mobile device including a microphone configured to receive an ultrasonic locationing pulse from one of the array of ultrasonic transmitters, the mobile device further including a transmitter to transmit ultrasonic locationing pulse signal characteristics to the venue locationing server;
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- wherein the venue locationing server determines whether the mobile device satisfies a charge location condition based at least in part on a locationing pulse signal characteristics received from the mobile device.
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A method for locationing a mobile device at a charge location, the method comprising:
- detecting, at a mobile device at a venue, a locationing pulse emitted from a transmitter in an array of transmitters to yield signal characteristics of the locationing pulse;
- transmitting, to a locationing server, a location of the mobile device at the venue based on the signal characteristics of the locationing pulse;
- moving the mobile device to a charge location at the venue;
- detecting, by the mobile device, a charge signal and/or a characteristic of the charge location;
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- transmitting, from the mobile device, the charge signal and/or the characteristic of the charge location to the locationing server,
- wherein the characteristic of the charge location is a photograph of a physical protrusion, the physical protrusion extending from a mobile device charge dock at the charge location.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.